By-The-Numbers: Apple Cup

Patrick Thrapp

11/20/2008

SEATTLE - By-The-Numbers is back for a Bottom-10 feast at some statistical analysis you aren't likely to see ever again. Washington, winless in 10 games so far, is an 8.5 point favorite on the road in the 101st playing of the Apple Cup. That's not a typo. How is the only skunked team in D1 a favorite over anybody? Well, we aren't just talking about anybody: WSU is bad. As in record-setting bad.

* Rank shown is for pass efficiency defense.Stats appearing in BLUE are the better of the 2 teams.

More Statistics

Statistic

WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON ST.

Diff

TY-LY

UW

OPP

DIFF

WSU

OPP

DIFF

UW-WSU

UW

Pts / G

13.9

39.9

-26.0

12.6

48.5

-35.8

1.3

-15.3

Yds / G

263.5

453.4

-189.9

236.4

460.3

-223.9

27.1

-130.7

Rushing Yds / G

86.4

228.5

-142.1

85.9

266.5

-180.6

0.5

-116.7

Passing Yds / G

177.1

224.9

-47.8

150.5

193.7

-43.3

26.6

-14.1

Yds / Play

4.1

6.6

-2.5

3.8

6.8

-3.0

0.3

-1.5

Rushing Yds / Car

2.7

5.4

-2.6

2.5

6.3

-3.8

0.2

-2.2

Passing Yds / Att

5.4

8.6

-3.2

5.3

7.7

-2.4

0.2

6.5

Passing Yds / Cmp

11.7

12.4

-0.6

10.0

13.3

-3.3

1.8

-2.3

Passing Cmp %

46.5

69.7

-23.3

52.9

57.6

-4.7

-6.4

0.5

Punt Return Avg

5.1

13.0

-7.9

4.3

9.8

-5.6

0.9

-5.9

Yds / 7 Pts

132.7

79.5

-53.2

130.9

66.5

-64.4

-1.8

-38.3

Plays / 7 Pts

32.3

12.1

-20.3

34.7

9.8

-25.0

2.4

15.3

Rushing Play %

49.4

62.0

-12.6

54.5

62.6

-8.1

-5.1

-8.8

Passing Play %

50.6

38.0

12.6

45.5

37.4

8.1

5.1

8.8

Plays/Game

64.2

68.7

-4.5

62.7

67.5

-4.8

0.0

-6.7

Turnovers / G

1.6

0.8

-0.8

2.1

2.1

0.0

0.5

-0.3

Fumbles / G

0.4

0.2

-0.2

0.3

1.4

1.1

-0.1

-0.4

Intercept / G

1.2

0.6

-0.6

1.8

0.7

-1.1

0.6

0.0

Penalties: No/G

0.8

0.4

-0.4

7.1

7.9

0.8

6.3

-5.4

Penalties: Yards/G

6.5

4.0

-2.5

61.3

76.4

15.1

54.8

-40.7

A positive(+) differential (DIFF) means that a team is better than its year-to-date opponents for a given statistic while anegative(-) differential (shown in red) means that it is worse. Blue in last year's column means current year is better in given statistic.